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capri0mniRemember, yesterday, I posted how another Blogger for BADD is writing about Disability in Ancient Greece? Well, I sent her a private message, and today, she emailed me a link: Toward an Archetypal Psychology of Disability Based on the Hephaestus Myth.
Around about this passage, my eyes started getting teary:
And on a lighter note, yesterday also gave me this to read, from Rolling around in my head: Who's confined?:
Around about this passage, my eyes started getting teary:
(quote) Bitter Hephaestus does not intend to stay hidden away in an underground cave forever. Stubborn anger toward his mother inspires him to seek revenge. These "negative" emotions engender the courage that is necessary for the disabled outcast to claim his rightful place in the world.
[snip]
The disabled deity refuses to play the role of the passive victim. Instead he is an active creator in forging his future place in society. Hephaestus' revenge is accomplished in such a clever and artful way that, in the end, it is enriching for the entire Olympian community. (unquote)
And on a lighter note, yesterday also gave me this to read, from Rolling around in my head: Who's confined?:
(quote) When I was pushing out of the restaurant, one little boy, who'd been watching the girls ride on my shoulders and was now watching Ruby sail out of the restaurant, said to his dad, 'Dad, why don't you have a wheelchair too?' I wanted to turn and say, 'Now be nice to your Dad, poor guy is confined to walking.' (unquote)
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Date: 2011-04-19 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-19 07:17 pm (UTC)Another thought that came to me, about Hephaestus' "bitterness" and how it made wormwood bitter.
...Wormwood is supposedly the magic herb in Absinthe that inspires creativity. So.
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Date: 2011-04-20 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-21 12:59 am (UTC)